Sylvain wrote:
> I started to rewrite it, namely I unrolled the c++ code into
> plain C code. But I did it only for basic layout rendering. The
> API has a major race condition though (free before access), I did
> try to warn the GTK+/pango devs, that was just hitting my head
> against a wall.

This sounds interesting, but I couldn't find anything in the harfbuzz
mailing list archives about a race condition. Do you have links to
the email thread?